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no, I am not handicapped apart from being blond, male and over 50.The second minus letter in the command is shorter then the first, I don't have that on my English apple keyboard.Sometimes on KDE I can't copy and paste. so I tried to type it... Can't work when I don't have the necessary signs.Been of the grid for a week,

Now it did work with copy and paste. This is the result:

x@x:~$ dpkg --print-architectureamd64I hope I didn't have any visual distortions this time....

sskyatmo wrote:The second minus letter in the command is shorter then the first, I don't have that on my English apple keyboard.Sometimes on KDE I can't copy and paste. so I tried to type it... Can't work when I don't have the necessary signs.

No, it isn't, this might just seem so, it is just a normal minus sign. Why can't you sometimes copy&paste? Select text, Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+Shift+V in the Konsole should always work in KDE, there is really no reason why it wouldn't. Right click on the mouse should always give the option for copy resp. paste as well, or do you use a mouse without buttons?

you guys are great , very enthusiastic and helpful.Just have to say that.I still can't update the system.Also all the other problems, like using Google Earth is impossible, make me think more of deleting the partition KDE is on.I did use a Linux distribution before on my old plastic brick Mac and on a Panasonic toughbook.It was called Navigatrix, something special for sailing and it worked flawless.32 bit version though.When I hear that some of you are used to write console commands for 40 years I can just nod in awe, because with my 59 years I am not to sure if I will get there.....If i make the decision to reinstall, what would be the right place and distribution to download?I am completely confused now, everything gets more and more complex and complicated with no solution in sight.Luckily with Linux I have access to my Mac Partition on the Laptop, so I don't loose to much Data. After aa security update my High Sierra works super slow now, so it's not much use anyway. I mostly use it for Google Earth.Sad that Apple stopped making usable OS since Snow Leopard.

b. You have some i386-packages already installed, which conflict with other, newer OS-packages. These shouldn't be there or should have been removed. They seem to originate from additional external software installed by You, manually.

We have to get rid of them. This could take a while. But is not super-difficult.

I'd say:

1. Enter: "sudo apt autoremove" + ENTERMaybe this will fix part of it.